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Chuck’s Place: Day of Equanimity

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness… an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. (Rumi)

Greet each day with equanimity…
– Photo by Jan Ketchel

Today will determine the future direction of the world. A polarized electorate officially decides who will govern the country. Clarity may come at once, or take several weeks to determine. The significance of the outcome has taken center stage in the lives of many world citizens.

Equanimity is the ability to remain composed, no matter what fate befalls a person. In Buddhist terms, it means to not attach to an outcome such that one loses composure if one’s preference does not manifest. Full acceptance of what is is the challenge.

In shamanic terms, the challenge is to be impeccable in stating and supporting one’s intent, but equally to have no attachment as to whether or not it manifests. When Jeanne and I took the alternative cancer journey, our sole concern was to impeccably follow the signs that guided us. When it became evident that she would be leaving this world we marveled at the journey we’d taken. Success and failure are an equal set of opposites in the shaman’s world. Regardless of outcome one continues to travel one’s path of heart, without skipping a beat.

Polishing one’s link to equanimity is perhaps the major offering of life in Earth School. Earth is a world that requires attachment to survive, yet insists upon loss of everything at death. To open to love while knowing its temporal limits in human form, is the shadow over every human relationship. To retain one’s love in pure spirit form, as one leaps freely into infinity, is the true graduation from Earth School.

The seeds of reincarnation, or limbo, are one’s non-readiness to allow for what is: the relativity of human form in a physical world. To remain in the illusion that nothing has changed is the consequence of unrelenting attachment to all things physical. Indeed, “what a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties… the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals…” (lyrics from Hair). In one form or another, wherever we are, we will remain bound to this world until we arrive at equanimity, the attitudinal ticket to life beyond the body.

Days like today offer the opportunity to get deeply calm and connected to the transcendent dimension of life. Ego is the part of spirit most attached to control in the physical world. Ego has its wants, needs, and expectations. Ego rises in success and sinks in failure. Ego is frequently alienated from its fuller transcendent self and thus invests fully in measuring its worth by its standing in the outside world.

The transcendent self views all experiences of victimhood as opportunities for ego to be in acceptance of all that is, or has been, another definition of equanimity. An ego that has achieved this level of fluidity experiences the constancy of awe, regardless of experience.

Of course, one will have one’s very human reaction to today’s outcome. But, whether it be joy or sorrow, release it in the next exhalation. With equanimity, remain connected to one’s transcendent self, sharing with it this moment in time but being lifted by it to the fuller multidimensionality of life as well.

Finally, let love, the heart of the transcendent self, deliver one to the fullest acceptance of all that life is, with equanimity.

With Equanimity,

Chuck

Soulbyte for Wednesday March 6, 2019

All that you are, all that you will be is inside you waiting to be awoken. Your future is already a dream within you, waiting to unfold, your potential coiled and waiting to unwind. Only time in Earth School will reveal who you are, though your dreams of you already exist within you. You just have to realize them by living them, by accepting them and becoming them. What you dream is already a reality within you, waiting for you to take it out of your dreamworld and make it come true. You are the creator of your own reality and thus everything you dream is already a possibility. Dream on, and yet don’t forget to wake up to your dreams and realize that you are already more than dreaming, you are already the living dream of you, for what you once only dreamed is now a reality. You are the living dream of you. What you dream really IS what you get. Is it time for a new dream?

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

A Message for Humanity From Jeanne: There Are No Victims



Earth School…
– Photo by Jan Ketchel

In our audio channeling this week we are all advised to take note of our journeys. They are all meaningful, every one of them, just as every experience we have is meaningful. And yet none of us are special or more deserving of another. We’re all journeyers in Earth School.

See you in class!

Soulbyte for Friday February 1, 2019

Let your love shine so that you leave behind you the essence of something great, a filament of light and love in the atmosphere of Earth School. Without ego, let your love shine naturally by letting it burn through all the barriers and blockages that now keep you from fully expressing the light of love. Your pain is only love trying to escape from the confines of your dense physical body. Release it wherever it is stuck and let your love be free to do its good work outside of you, beyond you. You are a being of love, but only if you let your love go. It is in you but does not truly belong to you. You are love’s conduit, a carrier of the flame of love. It’s your true mission on Earth, to let your love go. Love is not personal. It belongs to everyone. Let it go. Let your love go.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Friday January 25, 2019

Let love guide you. Let your heart be your channel of love, for self and other. Even as the world around you seems loveless and uncaring, be a beacon of love. Love is both the source and the ultimate goal in any earthly life. Life in Earth School is all about learning the true meaning of love, how to express the truth of love, how to be as loving as possible no matter the circumstances, for it is the invisible serum that all beings feel and understand, the universal language that spans the world and even goes beyond the world as you know it. Even if you are just learning about love, exercise what you already know and in so doing let your love grow. Be lovingly at ease with all you meet as you travel your path. Let your love flow.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne